(APHG) Unit 6 Industrial & Economic Geography- Vocabulary Review

Question 1

a highly organized and specialized system for organizing industrial production and labor

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Fordist

Question 2

the total value of all goods and services produced within a country during a given year

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Gross Domestic Product(GDP)

Question 3

when a poorer country ties the value of its currency to that of a wealthier country

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Dollarization

Question 4

places where two or more modes of transportation meet

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Intermodal Connections

Question 5

value of goods & services produced in a country in a year including money that leaves & enters

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Gross National Income (GNI)

Question 6

the movement of production from one site to another based cost advantages of the new site

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Spatial Fix

Question 7

areas where tax incentives and less stringent laws are used to attract foreign business

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Special Economic Zones

Question 8

the increase in time and cost that usually comes with increasing distance

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Friction of Distance

Question 9

when a family sends a child or an adult to a labor recruiter in the exchange for money

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Trafficking

Question 10

model that sees economic disparities among counties as historically derived power relations

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Structuralist Theory

Question 11

the total value of all goods and services produced by a country’s economy in a year

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Gross National Product(GNP)

Question 12

centers high-tech research & activity around which a high-tech corridor is sometimes built

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Technopole

Question 13

theory that the location of a factory is determined by labor, transportation, & agglomeration

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Weber's Least Cost Theory

Question 14

Wallerstein’s theory stating that the developing world is linked to the developed world

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World-Systems Theory

Question 15

series of links connecting the places of production and distribution

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Commodity Chain

Question 16

the entrenchment of the colonial order

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Neo-colonialism

Question 17

ownership by the same firm of companies along a variety of points on the commodity chain

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Vertical Integration

Question 18

the Gross National Income per person

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Per Capita GNI

Question 19

set of processes in which the parts are made in different places & then brought together

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Flexible Production System

Question 20

the south and southwest regions of the United States

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Sun Belt

Question 21

the expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to a worldwide scale

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Globalization

Question 22

the introduction, growth, maturation and decline of a product

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Product Life Cycle

Question 23

the idea that government intervention into markets is in efficient and should be resisted

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Neoliberalism

Question 24

making progress in technology, production, and socio-economic welfare

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Developing

Question 25

process by which companies move industrial jobs to other regions with cheaper labor

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Deindustrialization

Question 26

funds granted by international financial institutions to countries in the periphery

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Structural Adjustment Loans

Question 27

when corporations can draw from labor markets around the world

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Global Division of Labor

Question 28

with reference to production, to outsource to a third party located outside of the country

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Offshore

Question 29

economic activity not taxed ormonitored by a government, and is not included in the GNP

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Informal Economy

Question 30

with reference to production, to turn over in part or in total to a third party

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Outsource

Question 31

a process involving the clustering or concentrating of people or activities

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Agglomeration

Question 32

a region in NE US that was once characterized by industry but is now heavily deindustrialized

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Rust Belt

Question 33

process through which something is given monetary value

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Commodification

Question 34

a concentrated area of businesses that spurs economic development in the surrounding area

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Growth Pole

Question 35

Rostow’s theory that all countries go through five interrelated stages of development

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Modernization Model

Question 36

program that provides loans to poor people, especially women

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Microcredit Program

Question 37

a location along a transport route where goods must be transferred from one carrier to another

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Break-of-bulk Point

Question 38

what is happening at a variety of scales concurrently

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Context

Question 39

zones established by periphery countries that offer favorable tax and trade arrangements

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Export Processing Zones

Question 40

the legal economy that is taxed and monitored by a governmentand is included in the GNP

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Formal Economy

(APHG) Unit 6 Industrial & Economic Geography- Vocabulary Review

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(APHG) Unit 6 Industrial & Economic Geography- Vocabulary Review

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